Mission to CAMEROON – February 2025
On 8.2.2025, a four-member team of the “Heart Doctors” departed with Egypt Air for Chad with an overnight stay in Cairo. In N’Djamena, they received the visa of one of the organization’s members from the Cameroonian embassy where the Consul was waiting for them.
At noon of the same day, the team set off by road and after five hours of rough dirt road, arrived at the Bongor border at night, where they crossed through mud in dugouts, crossing over to Cameroon.
After customs formalities and with the guidance of Father Irine, who knew the labyrinth of provincial roads, they set off by road, passing through difficult dirt roads to arrive after two hours late at night in the isolated village of Katrang.
For the next five days, the “Heart Doctors” team offered free medical services, examining all those who came every day at the premises of the Church of the St. Apostle.
Main diseases:
Malaria (where injectable treatment was required), parasites, upper respiratory infections, schistosomiasis, arthralgias, urinary tract infections, gastroenteritis, conjunctivitis. Neglected lower limb wounds in poor condition that were cleaned daily and given antibiotics, anemia, malnutrition of a few infants, mastitis in nursing mothers, epilepsy, hypertension, diabetes.
Also, a patient with advanced left breast cancer and two more patients with chronic cough and hemoptysis were sent by the “Heart Doctors” to the hospital for free tuberculosis testing and treatment.
The priest and the school teachers informed the group about the need to create a building for the upper classes of students.
On 15.2.2025, the members of the mission began their return journey by road to the river in Yangoua at dawn, crossing the river in dugouts opposite Bongor and after a five-hour torturous journey they reached the capital N’Djamena where they spent the night. The next day they departed for Athens with an overnight stay in Cairo. On 17.2.2025, the team arrived in Athens.
